Monday, February 05, 2007

Whither '08 Support?

So the ACJ's Political Insider reports that our guv is openly campaigning for Vice President (of the U.S., one assumes), and that various members of the Georgia Republican congressional delegation (Reps. Price, Gingrey & Kingston) are lining up behind Massachusetts liberal, er, former Governor Mitt Romney.

On the Democratic side, it's being reported that former Guv Roy Barnes will be back in John Edwards' camp, and that despite other high-profile endorsements thus far, Edwards, by virtue of being the southern candidate, will be the man to beat in Georgia.

I'm not sure I believe that. Edwards lost Georgia to John Kerry in the '04 primary, if I remember correctly, and he failed to bring his home state of North Carolina to the table in the general election. The notion that just because he's a southerner means he has the "southern vote" locked up is absurd (it would also fail to explain why Romney, a northeast moderate, would have the backing of several Georgia Republicans over, say, wild west tuff guy John McCain).

So where is the Athens political elite in these early days of the race? Anyone lining up behind or holding fundraisers for McCain, Obama, Clinton, Giuliani, Romney, Edwards, etc.?

Inquiring minds...

2 comments:

Al_Davison said...

Sonny is the favorite to be the Republican V.P. candidate because of two reasons:
1) he looks more like Cheney than the other guys
2) he's an expert on doing absolutely nothing (which is the main job of the VP)

I pray that they put Sonny on the ticket! The Dems need all the help we can get. ;-)

Anonymous said...

lol where's Ed when you want to talk elite, lol....

I think whoever's vetting vp candidates will take a look at sonny's land dealings and decide he's not worth the risk.